The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-21

estate the undertaken will soon pu out of
sight Many years ago, in fulfillment OF
my text, a dart struck through their liver,
and it is there yet God forgives but out
ragged physical law never, never, never.
That has Sinai, but no Calvary. Solomon
in nv text knew what he was talking about.
He had in early life been prohigate, and
he rises up on his throne of worldly SPLEEN
dor to shrek out a warning to all the cen
turtles David, bad in early life, but good
in later life, cries out with an agony OF
earneStness: Remember not the sins OF
my youth
Stephen A Douglas gave the name of
''squarter sovereignty" to those who went
out Vest and took possession of lands and
held them by right of pre-occupatlon. Let
a flock of sins settle on your heart before
you get to twenty-five years OF age, and
they will in all probability keep possession
of it by an internal squatter sovereignty
~ promise to pay at the bank $500 six
months from date" says the promssory
note. 81 promise to pay my life thirty
years from date at the bank of the grave
says every infraction of the laws Of your
physical being.
WHAT Will mans body never com
| pletely recover from early dissipation in
this worldi Never How about the world
to comet Perhaps God will { it up in the
resurrection body so that it Will not have TO
go limping through all eternity; but get the
| liver thoroughly damaged and it will stay
damaged. Physicians call it cancer of the
| liver, or hardening OF the liver, or cirrhosis
of the liver, or inflammation of the liver, OF
| fatty deg neration Of the liver, but Solo
mon puts all these pangs into one figure and
says: "Till the dart strike through his liver"
Hesiod seemed TO have some hint OF this
when he represented Prometheus for his
crimes fastened to a pillar and an eagle
feeding on his liver, which was renewed
again EACH night, So that the devOuring
went on until finally Hercules slew the
eagle and rescued Prometheus. And dis
sipated early life assures ferocity pecking
away and ciawing away at the liver year
in and year out, and Death is the only Her
cules VINO can break the power of its beak
or unclench its claw. So also Virgil and
Homer wrote fables about vultures preying
upon the liver, but there are those here to-
day with whom it is no fable, but terrific
reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes and
smoking cigars has no idea that he is get
ting for himself smoked liver That young
man has no idea that he has by early dis
sipation 80 depleted his energies that he will
go into the bat lie only half armed. Napol-
con lost Waterloo days before 1t was
fought. Had he attacked the English army
before it was Reinforced, and taken it divis-
ion by division he might have won the day,
but he waited until he had only one hundred
thousand men against two hundred thou
sand. And here is u young man who, If he
put all his forces against the regiment of
youthful temptations, in the strength of
God might drive them back, but he is al
lowing them TO be REINFORCED by the whole
army of mid-life temptations, and when all
these combined forces are massed against
him and no Groucny comes to help him,
and Butcher has come to help his foes, what
but immoI tai defeat can await him!
Oh, my young brother, do not make the
mistake that thousands all around you are
making, in opening the battle against sin
too late, for this world too late and for the
world to come too late. What brings that
express train from st. Louis into Jersey
City three hours latef They lost fifteen
minutts early on he route, and that az
fected them all the way, and they had to be
switched off here ana switched otf there,
and detained here and detained there, and
the man who loses time and strength in the
earlier part Of the journey of life will suffer
for it all the way through, the first twenty
years of life damaging the following fifty
| years.
Some years ago scientific lecturer went
through the country exhibiting on great
canvas different parts of the human body
when healthy, and different parts when dis
eased. And what the world wants now is
some eloquent scientist to 20 through the
country showing TO our young people on
blazing canvas the drunkard's liver, the
idler's liver, the libertine's liver the gam
bler's liver. Perhaps the spectacle might
stop some young man before he comes to
the same catastrophe, and the dart strike
through his own liver.
Ny bearer, This is tho first sermon you
have heard on the Gospel of Health, and it
may be the last you VIII ever hear on that
subject, and charge you in the name of
God, and Christ, and usefulness, and eternal
destiny, take better care Of your health.
When some of you die, if your friends put
on your tombstone truthful epitaph, it
will read: Here lies the victim of late
suppers," or it will be: Behold what
chicken salad at midnight will do for a
man, or it will be: Ten cigars a day
closed by earthly existence" or it will be-
Sat down in a cold iraught and this is the
result or it will be: Il died of thin shoes
last wiuter,n or it will be: went out
without an overcOat and took this last chill, y
or it will be: Thought l could do at
seventy what | did at twenty, and | am
here, or it will be: Here is the conse
quence of sitting half day with wet feet, -
or it will be: This is where | have stacked
my harvest of wild oats" or, instead of
words, the stonecutter will chisel for an epi-
tapn on the tombstone two figures: namely
dart and liver.
There is kind or sickness that is beauti-
full when it comes from overwork for God,
or ones country, or ones own family. have
seen wounds that were glorious. After the
battle of Antietam in the hospital IA soldier,
in reply to my question, where are you
hurtl' uncovered his bosom and showed me
a cash that looked like a badge OF eternal
| nobility. | have seen an empty sleeve that
was more beautiful than the most muscular
| forearm. / have seen a green shade over
the eye shot out in battle that was more
beautiful than any two eyes that had passed
| without injury. l have seen an old mis-
sionary worn out with the malaria of
African jungleS who looked to me more
radiant than a rubicund gymnast. have
seen mother after six week ; watching
over family of children down with scarlet
fever, with glory around her pale and wan
/ face that surpassed the angelic. lt all de-
ponds on how you got your sickness and in
what battle your wounds. Frederick L,
Frelinghuysen, the pride of New Jer-
sey-aye of the nation-and one
of the pillars of the Christian
church, and for nearly four years practi-
cally President of the United States, al
though in the office of Secretary of State,
in his determination to make peace with all
the governments on this American con-
tiuent, wore himself out, and while his brain
was as keen as it ever was. and his heart
| beat as regularly as it ever did, he was. ac-
! cording to the bulletin of his physicians ut
| Washington and Newark, dying Of harden